IPR_OB claims to be the first fully-integrated clinical management system for obstetricians, midwives and OB nurses. It is designed to improve risk management and quality of care in OB from prenatal through postpartum.

Main features:

• IPR_OB offers clinical and risk management and documentation support, EMR, and CPOE in one integrated system.
• The system offers real-time best practice and risk management support based on over 8,500 state-of-the-art OB protocols, obstetrical rules, care pathways and guidelines sourced from ACOG, AWHONN, and JCAHO recommendations. These protocols and guidelines are maintained with the state-of-the-art knowledge available through the formal publications of the above sources.
• IPR_OB uses an advanced Expert Technology infrastructure to deliver decision support and risk management capabilities. The rules making up the protocols, guidelines, recommendations and pathways of care embedded in the system are executed automatically, based on each individual clinical situation. For example, IPR_OB prompts users for any missing essential data or when treatment decisions don't comply with stated guidelines and protocols. It also issues time-based clinical reminders to ensure proper and timely execution of orders, instructions and routine tasks.
• The system can be fully customized to the practice guidelines of a specific hospital and supports changes in a hospital's protocols and practice guidelines or in the CCC's approach to risk management measures.
• IPR_OB includes risk management protection rules that present clinicians with situation-specific documentation and case management options in real time at the point of entry. IPR_OB is designed to promote lower malpractice exposure - more than 40 percent of all malpractice settlement dollars in the US are obstetrics-related.
• The system includes real-time quality improvement capabilities that actively support staff members in managing an OB case at a higher clinical quality and with fewer errors in management and/or documentation.
• IPR_OB can statistically demonstrate quality improvement in patient care and quality of documentation achieved through the use of the system, based on benchmarking done at a hospital prior to the introduction of the system.
• IPR_OB interfaces with fetal monitors, hospital-wide order entry and lab systems, ADT and billing with complete interdepartmental compatibility.
• Sophisticated data analysis and research queries can be carried out and a large number of detailed reports including quality assurance generated.
• The IPR_OB electronic medical record (EMR) is designed for use by physicians, midwives and nurses
• IPR_OB operates on an MS Windows personal computer located at the patient's bedside, nursing stations, physician's rooms, triage and operating rooms. Central stations, located at specific central locations in the Labor and delivery ward summarize all patients' information on large screens for overall ward monitoring and management. Each workstation can display patient records from other active bedsides.

Dror "DC" Chevion, Executive VP, E&C Medical Intelligence Inc.